Country Images Magazine North Edition July 2017 | Page 23

Brian Spencer visits a 1920’s
house in Worksop where
time has stood still
this venture that in August 1937 he was able to resign his post as a teacher
and live a more leisured existence, daily visiting the National Gallery and the
British Museum reading room. A creature of habit, every Friday he caught
the 1:40pm train from London to his home in Worksop.
Life for the younger Straws changed irrevocably when their mother died
in 1939 and William moved back to live in the family home, settling into a
mildly eccentric but not totally reclusive life that was not to change for the
next 40 years. William and Walter began a routine where William looked
aft er the house and garden, while Walter cycled every day to the shop in
Worksop’s Market Place.
Far left:
The dining room at
Mr Straw’s House.
Main picture:
Number 7 Blythe Grove.